You mean they don’t fit well in terms of length? If I recall correctly you can have a quoted command line argument that spans multiple lines:
% car script.sh #! /bin/sh
gsc -e ' (define n 1000) (define (f x) (* x x)) (pp (f n)) (pp "hello") '
Marc
On Jul 13, 2016, at 10:44 AM, Adam adam.mlmb@gmail.com wrote:
Ah, yes of course -e works universally; I meant universal in the sense pluripotent, panacea, here, that is, that there are instances when you want to launch gsc with code parameters, but they don't fit well into a command line argument, so it's not universal in the sense that -e can't receive code as parameters also via stdin. Only that.
2016-07-13 22:28 GMT+08:00 Marc Feeley feeley@iro.umontreal.ca: I’m not sure what you mean when you say the “-e” command line option is not universal. It should work on all platforms, regardless of the OS.
Marc
On Jul 13, 2016, at 1:22 AM, Adam adam.mlmb@gmail.com wrote:
Marc,
How do I pipe commands into Gambit on "all" unices?
The "-e" argument is not universal so I may just want to pipe to Gambit's stdin.
The following just brings you a REPL with no input made to it, and you do the typing - does Gambit use some very exotic means of console input, or does it empty its read buffer at start?? If so why, and how do I make it simply use "stdin"?
cat << 'eof' | gsc
(display "Hello world\n") ,q
eof
Thanks